Written by: IDC Abner Germanow, Jonathan Edwards, Lee Doyle IDC believes the convergence of communications and mainstream IT architectures will drive significant innovation in business processes over the next decade.

The Cisco® 2016 Midyear Cybersecurity Report—which presents research, insights, and perspectives from Cisco Security Research—updates security professionals on the trends covered in our previous security report while also examining developments that may affect the security landscape later this year.

Today, digital security is top-of-mind. From the boardroom to the backroom, everyone is asking the same questions, “How do we protect our digital experiences? How do we ensure our website is safe for our visitors? How do we make sure that no one can steal our content?” But safeguarding a digital experience isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. It often involves multiple techniques and layers of security.
From verifying your identity (with HTTPS) to encrypting sensitive data to restricting access and protecting multimedia content, you must approach security in a layered manner, employing multiple means and techniques to protect the digital content through which your audience interacts.
This paper explores ten different methods and technologies that an organization can employ to protect its content. This multi-layered approach can effectively protect your digital content, ensure high availability, and maintain superior quality of experience for every digital visitor.
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As a leading provider of SSL certificates, DigiCert is here to help you discover the benefits of using HTTPS across your entire site, and to help you successfully implement it.
HTTPS Everywhere is a best practice security measure for websites that ensures the entire user experience is safe from online threats. The term simply refers to using HTTPS—the secure web protocol enabled by SSL/TLS—across your entire website instead of selectively.
Implementing HTTPS Everywhere on your website secures the user and your organization’s data on every page— from start to finish.

A recent Gartner research note discusses the strides DreamWorks Animation has made during its 13 years using open source technology. Red Hat has found that with cloud, virtualization, middleware, and operating system products and services, DreamWorks Animation has streamlined processes, improved techniques, and significantly reduced costs.

David Klee and Bala Narasimhan discuss the tips for DBAs and Infrastructure Admins to maximize the performance of their systems without massive restructuring of their environments. - See more at: http://www.pernixdata.com/resource/database-experts-bringing-together-databases-virtualization-and-storage#sthash.KKii86jl.dRQXxxik.dpuf

The web application firewall (WAF) is among the most complex security technologies on the market today. The complexity of managing a WAF includes a pre-defined list of rules to identify thousands of potential exploits, intelligence about new attack vectors, and identifying malicious HTTP requests from legitimate HTTP traffic. Read this white paper to learn how to combine attack detection with threat intelligence using our cloud platform and managed security services to better protect your web applications.

To meet the challenges of managing such a complex environment, IT teams need an enterprise-ready cloud management platform that can support multivendor environments, automate application and service delivery, and facilitate operations and governance. VMware provides an enterprise-ready cloud management platform that delivers the industry’s most complete solution for managing a heterogeneous, hybrid cloud, and supports cloud management requirements across Day 1 and Day 2 operations for compute, storage, network and application level resources. The VMware solution is in use today across a wide range of industries and use cases, delivering benefits such as faster provisioning, optimized IT operations, and lower capital spending.
To learn more about the VMware cloud management platform, visit http://www.vmware.com/virtualization/ cloud-management.

There are multiple options for organizations with intellectual property and restricted information that must be shared between staff and business partners to adopt in order to avoid inadvertent release of restricted information to unauthorized personnel.

Solar City provides a customer testimonial detailing how Zoom was able to help reduce executive travel costs, increase efficiency, and expand nationally and internationally.
Learn more about Zoom today at http://zoom.us/

Complex and strictly regulated supply chains require trust between involved parties to function properly and maximize efficiency.
Addressing a wide range of challenges, IBM Blockchain efficiently streamlines the supply chain by digitizing the process to provide a secure, trustworthy and shared record of ownership. Making relevant information available to parties involved, the blockchain addresses transparency issues and open standards. It can also simultaneously track the supply chain status for risks and triggers remediation actions before a crisis emerges.
Learn more about how IBM Blockchain can transform your supply chain to get more business value out of your processes and data.
Click here to find out more about how embedding IBM technologies can accelerate your solutions’ time to market.
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VMware Horizon and Workspace ONE is the most complete solution for delivering, managing, and protecting Windows desktops, applications, and online services across devices, locations, media, and connections. To learn more about how Workspace ONE delivers and manages any device by integrating identity, application, and enterprise mobility management:
Visit http://www.vmware.com/products/horizon

"Looking for an agile and scalable ERP system but don’t know where to start? IDC MarketScape is a comprehensive guide specifically for midsize companies. Read an excerpt from the report to learn the capabilities your midsize company should expect from cloud-enabled ERP applications. https://www.workday.com/en-us/forms/reports/idc-me-landscape.dl.html
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The MP7000 is loaded with features that take scanning performance and simplicity to the next level for faster checkout lanes, increased cashier productivity and POS throughput — and a better shopping experience. To learn more about the MP7000, go to: https://goo.gl/693u8o.

The case for recurring revenue models has grown so strong as to be irrefutable, but putting these ideas to work for your business requires infrastructure, a plan, and proficient implementation.
This Guide to Recurring Revenue Success was written by industry expert Bob Harden to inform you about the opportunity for recurring revenue, what’s necessary to succeed, and how to get started. You'll learn:
• Why the recurring revenue model is spreading so rapidly
• How to get started on developing a recurring revenue strategy
• Which elements are essential for successful implementation
• What lies ahead for companies which adopt recurring revenue models
- See more at: http://info.ariasystems.com/recurring-revenue-success-guide.html#sthash.W65wlfVw.dpuf

Learn more about the AWS Partner Webinar Series at - https://amzn.to/2ILG0R7.
Join our webinar to hear how Lyft and other data-driven organizations benefit from uncovering hidden insights in real time with AI solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Anodot. Learn how to prevent events that can impact your revenue and brand integrity with a solution that detects anomalies quickly, allowing you to address issues in a timely manner to help ensure a consistently high-quality experience for your customers.

Learn more Salesforce and Amazon Web Services at http://amzn.to/2zhcn1v.
Building and releasing cutting-edge applications quickly can be difficult when you lack proper tooling and integrated customer data. Salesforce Heroku delivers a cloud-native, developer-friendly platform that streamlines application development by integrating formerly siloed customer data and removing the burden of infrastructure management, allowing developers to focus their attention solely on creating customer-centric applications. Join the upcoming webinar to hear how the Financial Times builds customer-driven applications with faster cycle times with Heroku and AWS.

Learn more about AWS Partner Webinars at - https://amzn.to/2I6ogPM.
In this webinar, you will learn about VMware Cloud on AWS, an integrated hybrid cloud offering jointly developed by AWS and VMware delivering a highly scalable, secure and innovative service that enables organizations to seamlessly migrate and extend their on-premises VMware vSphere-based environments to AWS running on next-generation Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) bare metal infrastructure.

Understanding HTTP and how these headers control behavior of web-based applications can lead to better end-user performance, as well as making it easier to choose an application acceleration solution that addresses the shortcomings of HTTP and browser-based solutions.

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